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Special Feature: In Pursuit of a New President
The College is on the hunt for its seventeenth president after James Wright announced his June 2009 resignation. A search committee has been formed; its antecedental task is the resolution of this question: is this a time for steady-as-she-goes, or is there a mandate for fresh leadership? Updates here.
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Congress, Aspiring to the Mendoza Line
Yesterday I posted about the demise of the $700 billion dollar bailout plan in Congress.
This morning the Wall Street Journal has a fine opinion piece on the matter, quite sensibly linking Congress’s past years of inaction, stagnation, and partisanship with horridly low approval ratings. The Mendoza Line, in baseball, is literally .198 batting average, or more generally a point of sub par play on the borderline of atrocious. Congress, as far as their ‘batting averages’ go, seems to be doing far worse than this very low standard.
(Do feel free to check out a post from this past summer about the congressional baseball game, for an interesting event and in case you are interested in some actual stats for members of Congress.)
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November 17, 2008
Reconsidering Prop 8
Dartblog has been covering and opining on the gay marriage debate, particular in reference to “Prop 8” California’s recent constitutional amendment to ban the practice. Some past thoughts here. I have been mulling the issue… -
October 28, 2008
Debate: College Democrats v. College Republicans
Here I am in 3 Rockefeller Hall, liveblogging the fourth and most important presidential debate of this election season: the one held right here, in this room, between the Dartmouth College Democrats and the Dartmouth… -
October 13, 2008
Frontrunners
You know we’re both amiable in our own sense—in our own senses, and I think that, basically, you know, us together produces a force of, uh, amiab—amiability which is, ahh, a synergical force of amiability… -
October 6, 2008
Alumni, Students Fighting for the Vote at Colgate
The movement to get alumni involved and included in the governance of colleges and universities is alive at Colgate. A Better Colgate is campaigning “to elect a majority of the members of the Board of… -
October 4, 2008
Saturday at the Savoy
The cavernous Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, which ran the length of a full city block and required three big bands to float the beat across the hall, was the inspiration for Edgar Sampson’s 1934 tune… -
October 3, 2008
Liveblogging the Presidential Search Committee Forum
About 50 people have turned up to the student Presidential Search Committee Forum today in Collis Common Ground. About 20 are students. Chairman of the search committee Al Mulley ‘70 opened with vagaries, a great…